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Mississippi Business NewsFri, 31 Jul 2015 20:53:11 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3NFIB survey: Small business owners uncertain about futurehttp://msbusiness.com/2013/09/nfib-survey-small-business-owners-uncertain-future/
http://msbusiness.com/2013/09/nfib-survey-small-business-owners-uncertain-future/#commentsTue, 10 Sep 2013 12:45:59 +0000http://msbusiness.com/?p=80687JACKSON — Small-business optimism remained flat in August, dropping 0.1 points from July for a final reading of 94.0, according to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). While the total reading showed essentially no change over the month prior, a look at the individual indicators reveals incongruent details. Job creation plans leapt to a ...

]]>http://msbusiness.com/2013/09/nfib-survey-small-business-owners-uncertain-future/feed/0NFIB: Index drop ends 'any hope of revival in confidence'http://msbusiness.com/2013/07/nfib-index-drop-ends-any-hope-of-revival-in-confidence/
http://msbusiness.com/2013/07/nfib-index-drop-ends-any-hope-of-revival-in-confidence/#commentsWed, 10 Jul 2013 11:55:33 +0000http://msbusiness.com/?p=77841JACKSON — Small-business optimism remained in tepid territory in June, as the National Federation of Independent Business’ monthly economic index dropped just under a point (0.9) and landed at 93.5 — effectively ending any hope of a revival in confidence among job creators, NFIB says. Six of the 10 index components fell, while two rose ...

]]>http://msbusiness.com/2013/07/nfib-index-drop-ends-any-hope-of-revival-in-confidence/feed/0Business owners can determine if customers can carry firearms on premiseshttp://msbusiness.com/2013/06/business-owners-can-determine-if-customers-can-carry-firearms-on-premises/
http://msbusiness.com/2013/06/business-owners-can-determine-if-customers-can-carry-firearms-on-premises/#commentsFri, 28 Jun 2013 05:01:19 +0000http://msbusiness.com/?p=77262Starting Monday, state law will allow firearms to be openly carried without a permit. House Bill 2, passed during the last session, was celebrated by supporters as an important step to protecting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. It essentially permits those who are not convicted felons to have on their person firearms that ...

]]>http://msbusiness.com/2013/06/business-owners-can-determine-if-customers-can-carry-firearms-on-premises/feed/0Ron Aldridge takes Woodmen board seathttp://msbusiness.com/2013/06/ron-aldridge-takes-woodmen-board-seat/
http://msbusiness.com/2013/06/ron-aldridge-takes-woodmen-board-seat/#commentsFri, 28 Jun 2013 05:00:27 +0000http://msbusiness.com/?p=77382Ron Aldridge, of Jackson, is now a member of the board of directors of Woodmen of the World/Omaha Woodmen Life Insurance Society. Aldridge has been an attorney-at-law in Aldridge Law Office since 1977. He has served as the Mississippi state director of the National Federation of Independent Business, representing 3,500 small business owners, from 1989-92 ...

]]>http://msbusiness.com/2013/06/ron-aldridge-takes-woodmen-board-seat/feed/0Bill seeks to end accelerated sales tax systemhttp://msbusiness.com/2013/01/bill-seeks-to-end-accelerated-sales-tax-system/
http://msbusiness.com/2013/01/bill-seeks-to-end-accelerated-sales-tax-system/#commentsFri, 25 Jan 2013 06:01:58 +0000http://msbusiness.com/?p=68669Legislation that sits in the House and Ways and Means Committee would offer relief at the end of the state fiscal year for taxpayers who collect sales taxes. Currently, taxpayers who collect sales and use taxes — which encompasses almost all of the state’s small businesses — are allowed to remit them to the state ...

]]>http://msbusiness.com/2013/01/bill-seeks-to-end-accelerated-sales-tax-system/feed/0NFIB director discusses issues facing state’s small businesseshttp://msbusiness.com/2012/07/nfib-director-discusses-issues-facing-states-small-businesses/
http://msbusiness.com/2012/07/nfib-director-discusses-issues-facing-states-small-businesses/#commentsSun, 08 Jul 2012 20:17:48 +0000http://msbusiness.com/?p=59408There are a lot of news stories and much campaign rhetoric about the challenges confronting small businesses everywhere. The Mississippi Business Journal asked Ron Aldridge, state director of the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), to address the leading issues facing the state’s small business owners. He says for the first time in almost four ...

]]>http://msbusiness.com/2012/07/nfib-director-discusses-issues-facing-states-small-businesses/feed/1Report says low to middle-income licensing too burdensome in statehttp://msbusiness.com/2012/07/report-says-low-to-middle-income-licensing-too-burdensome-in-state/
http://msbusiness.com/2012/07/report-says-low-to-middle-income-licensing-too-burdensome-in-state/#commentsSun, 08 Jul 2012 06:01:49 +0000http://msbusiness.com/?p=59402A recent study by the Institute for Justice confirmed what small business advocate Ron Aldridge already knew: Mississippi’s licensing requirements for low- and middle-income occupations are excessive. The IJ report, released in May, reveals that Mississippi has what it calls “barriers of entry” for 55 of 102 low- and middle-income occupations examined. Four states license ...

]]>http://msbusiness.com/2012/07/report-says-low-to-middle-income-licensing-too-burdensome-in-state/feed/1Public land in Delta impacted by river floodhttp://msbusiness.com/2011/09/public-land-in-delta-impacted-by-river-flood-2/
http://msbusiness.com/2011/09/public-land-in-delta-impacted-by-river-flood-2/#commentsFri, 16 Sep 2011 13:00:08 +0000http://msbusiness.com/businessblog/?p=1151Every year, hunters flock to the Delta to take advantage of some of the best public hunting land in the state offered by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries & Parks’ wildlife management areas (WMAs) and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s Theodore Roosevelt National Wildlife Refuge Complex. This year, however, hunters are wondering if ...

]]>http://msbusiness.com/2011/09/public-land-in-delta-impacted-by-river-flood-2/feed/0Jackson councilman pushes insurance requirement for convenience stores that sell alcoholic beverageshttp://msbusiness.com/2011/07/jackson-councilman-pushes-insurance-requirement-for-convenience-stores-that-sell-alcoholic-beverages/
http://msbusiness.com/2011/07/jackson-councilman-pushes-insurance-requirement-for-convenience-stores-that-sell-alcoholic-beverages/#commentsFri, 22 Jul 2011 19:51:31 +0000http://msbusiness.com/businessblog/?p=838The liability insurance Jackson City Councilman Kenneth Stokes wants to require of convenience stores in the city that sell alcoholic beverages may make the premises safer from mishaps such as slip-and-falls. But don’t look for it to lessen the likelihood of violent incidents – or to even cover customers injured by violence, insurance professionals say. ...

]]>http://msbusiness.com/2011/07/jackson-councilman-pushes-insurance-requirement-for-convenience-stores-that-sell-alcoholic-beverages/feed/1‘Replacement costs’ likely go by wayside with eminent domain votehttp://msbusiness.com/2011/07/replacement-costs-likely-go-by-wayside-with-upcoming-vote/
http://msbusiness.com/2011/07/replacement-costs-likely-go-by-wayside-with-upcoming-vote/#commentsThu, 14 Jul 2011 05:03:57 +0000http://msbusiness.com/businessblog/?p=713A ballot initiative to curb eminent domain in Mississippi to protect private property from private enterprise carries a cost land owners may not have considered, says Randy Kelley, executive director of Three Rivers Planning and Development District. New limits on the state’s eminent domain law through a constitutional change could end the paying of “replacement ...